I took the kids to the library last week, and it was a mess. I was immediately reminded of this post by Emily. I borrow quite a few books from the library, but I am one who orders them online, they tell me when the books are in, I go in and pick them up on my way to getting the kids from daycare. I do not traipse through the library with my hoard (of two) to “browse”. But a few weeks ago I picked up a number of kid books that we then enjoyed, so when I brought them back I thought I would let them pick out a couple books themselves. Henry *loves* books. He wants to hug and kiss each one, and pull everything down from the shelves and peer at the pages … I should have known this would be a problem. I should have known. Hindsight’s a bitch, right?
They got their two books each, and then I took them to the adjoining playground which was another crazy mess – me with a pile of books + purse and two children who didn’t want to LEAVE the playground after 15 minutes of slides. I got through it, and obviously didn’t learn anything because Monday Spencer asked to go to the library. He’s learning to read and we’ve mostly sworn off nighttime tv, so we read a book every night. I was excited that he wanted more books, so I agreed even though I remember how bad last week went. BUT! I went prepared. I said no playground. I brought a bag to put the books in so I wouldn’t be struggling. Still, 30 seconds in Henry was yanking books off the shelf and Spencer was running around picking books that I had no intention of reading him (the history of the Porsche, entirely in Spanish? Nothankyou). We settled on 3 books as quickly as possible for S and got the heck out of Dodge.
This post is designed to remind me to wait another three years before bringing them back to the library, especially if I plan on doing it by myself.
By the way, how are there so many terribly written children’s books? Who reads some of this crap? Who publishes some of this crap?
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Man, I hope our library days aren’t coming to an end now that Paul’s mobile. It was a lot easier to take two kids back when he slept in the stroller the whole time. Last week he was crawling around (when we went to the play area) and there were times I was focusing on one child and lost the other one.
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